The White House official who mocked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for “dying” called McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, on Thursday to apologize for the remark, according to The Hill and Politico.
The conversation “didn’t go so well,” according to a source who spoke with Politico reporter Annie Karni.
Source tells me Sadler called Meghan McCain today. And that it didn’t go so well. https://t.co/ZdAgD001jk
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) May 10, 2018
The Hill was first to report on Thursday that White House special assistant Kelly Sadler said that John McCain’s opposition to President Trump’s CIA director nominee Gina Haspel didn’t matter because he’s “dying anyway.” The comment was reportedly meant as a joke, but it did not go over well with the rest of the people in the White House meeting, according to sources who spoke with the Hill.
John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain responded with a direct tweet to Sadler on Thursday, pointing out that “my husband has a family, seven children and five grandchildren.” Meghan McCain retweeted her mother.
@kellysadler45 May I remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren.
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) May 10, 2018
John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer last year and has been home in Arizona in recent months recovering from treatments.
Not enough. Sadler needs to be permanently unemployable (of course, so does Meghan McCain).
Well I guess that wipes the slate clean.
Sadler can start fresh today with new crap.
She’s only following in her boss’s footsteps. He’s made it okay to say these kinds of hateful, nasty comments out loud. Trump will lead people right over the cliff.
At least some of those around her didn’t agree and blew the whistle.
I would say, publicly, “Kelly Sadler can take her worthless apology and shove it up her worthless ass. And I do not mean that as a joke.”
And get a load of this little useless tidbit of horseshit issued by the White House:
“We respect Senator McCain’s service to our nation…”
Oh, really, Donald? Why, I thought you preferred soldiers who weren’t captured by the enemy."
Common decency is not a commodity one associates with this administration. Even so, this wench is remarkable for her lack thereof.